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The Most Profitable Trend in Podcasting Is a Big Ugly Problem for the Rest of Us
Tech media is moving toward flattering, access-driven coverage, where the powerful reward friendly coverage.
The Spice Economy
Maryland-based spice company, McCormick, is absorbing Unilever’s food division in a massive “takeunder.
The Economy Is in Even Rougher Shape Than It Looks
Things aren’t giving way just yet—but they’re getting shakier and shakier.
Money Talks: The Broken Promise of America’s Next Top Model
The iconic reality show promised its contestants the chance to build a career, but only the creators found real success.
Trump is still trying to DOGE the NIH. Republicans are tired.
The NIH has proven a difficult target for the White House budget director, because lawmakers have a symbiotic relationship with the agency.
RFK Jr. has turned corporate America’s name to mud, POLITICO Poll finds
Most Americans, especially Republicans, want to regulate food and drug makers now.
After loss in court, RFK Jr. amends guidelines for key vaccine panel to emphasize risks of shots
A federal judge put the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on ice last month. The changes could help Kennedy find a way around that decision.
Top drug lobbyist to depart PhRMA at year end
The announcement of Steve Ubl’s departure, disclosed during a board call, caps a decade atop the brand-name drug lobby.
Poll: Here’s what MAHA actually believes
A new POLITICO Poll finds that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy again supporters don’t align with him — or each other — on some key issues.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It
President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.
‘I’ve won affordability’: Trump previews SOTU in Georgia rally
The president stopped in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old district to defend his economic record.
Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns with Orbán in Show of Support for Far Right in Europe
Amid strains in U.S.-European relations, the Trump administration has worked to strengthen ties with Hungary and its far-right leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is facing his biggest challenge in 16 years. With just days to go before parliamentary elections, Orbán’s Fidesz party is trailing the center-right pro-EU Tisza party led by Péter Magyar. U.S. Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest this week and appeared alongside Orbán to openly campaign for his reelection.
Will the U.S. and Europe Break Up? Trump Says He May Pull Out of NATO as Iran War Criticism Mounts
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has deepened rifts with several European countries. The Spanish government has been most outspoken in its opposition to the war, and U.S. allies like Germany and the United Kingdom have voiced some criticism while providing logistical support for the assault on Iran. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has tried to smooth over differences and placate President Trump, even as he has mused about pulling the U.S.
“10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack
As the United States and Iran prepare to hold talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the war, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon, where the death toll from Wednesday’s massive wave of attacks has topped 300.
“It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday,” says Lebanese Australian journalist Rania Abouzeid, speaking with Democracy Now! from Beirut.
Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region
As Iran destroyed energy facilities and infrastructure in all six of its Persian Gulf neighbors and blocks their shipments of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates — are reevaluating their strategic alliances with the United States.
Why Can’t Euphoria Grow Up?
Early in Euphoria’s newest season, a whisper of a young woman walks down a crowded street in Mexico. She has swallowed several tiny bags of powdered fentanyl, each so-called balloon ingested painfully with the help of a bottle of cheap lubricant. As Rue (played by Zendaya) narrates that these balloons need to stay intact, the woman collapses. The next scene finds her dead, a mess of balloons piled next to her.
Welcome back to TV’s most disturbing show—sort of.
Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
In the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, required not just an ordinary election campaign or new messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots social movement. And by building exactly that, Hungary’s opposition changed politics around the world.
Hungary Just Ousted the Unoustable
This story was updated on Sunday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m. ET.
Friends danced on one another’s shoulders. Fathers embraced their children. A teenage girl wept. Beer flowed. After 16 years, Hungarians had voted their strongman leader, Viktor Orbán, out of office. “I knew it was possible,” Balázs Nagy, a warehouse worker, told me this evening in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube. “Hungarians are stubborn, and we don’t give up on each other.
The Profound Comedy of Outer Space
His eyes filled with wonder and his voice imbued by humility, Victor Glover—poised with his Artemis II crewmates to complete a record-setting voyage around the moon—addressed the camera. He looked out the window, awestruck by his home planet looking back at him. “Being a man of faith,” he said solemnly, “this has certainly brought me closer to God.” And then: A Pringles can drifted into the frame.
“Oh come on, guys,” Glover said, exasperated.
Byzantine Room
In the Byzantine room the most
Beautiful cabochon is the missing one.
Clear, like the head of Brian Boru’s harp.
I imagined myself drinking and drinking
From ewers—they had real respect
For rock crystal back then.
Smears of the human on all glass,
Child height, clouds of breath.
Reliquary Arm of Saint Valentine,
Silver, with a sapphire on one finger,
Rough, uneven,
And then you come around to the other
Side and see a dungeon in his forearm,
Sprung open—we are free.
The Most Profitable Trend in Podcasting Is a Big Ugly Problem for the Rest of Us
Tech media is moving toward flattering, access-driven coverage, where the powerful reward friendly coverage.
The Spice Economy
Maryland-based spice company, McCormick, is absorbing Unilever’s food division in a massive “takeunder.
The Economy Is in Even Rougher Shape Than It Looks
Things aren’t giving way just yet—but they’re getting shakier and shakier.
Money Talks: The Broken Promise of America’s Next Top Model
The iconic reality show promised its contestants the chance to build a career, but only the creators found real success.